Sequence analysis of 17 NRXN1 deletions

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-61

  Hoeffding, Louise Kristine Enggaard ^a   Hansen, Thomas ^a   Ingason, Andrés ^a   Doung, Linh ^a   Thygesen, Johan H ^a   Møller, Rikke S ^b   Tommerup, Niels ^c   Kirov, George ^d   Rujescu, Dan ^e,f   Larsen, Lars A ^c   Werge, Thomas ^a,c,g  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b DANISH EPILEPSY CENTRE   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^g IPSYCH The Lundbeck Foundation's Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breakpoints; Deletion; Neurexin 1

Indexed keywords

NEUREXIN; NEUREXIN 1; NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE PROTEIN; NRXN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME 2; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPILEPSY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; EPILEPSY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84890155409     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32204     Document Type: Article

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